<<During the American Revolution, Patriot irregulars under Colonel
William Campbell defeat Tories under Major Patrick Ferguson at the
Battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina.

"Major Ferguson's Tory force, made up mostly of American Loyalists
from South Carolina and elsewhere, was the western wing of General
Lord Cornwallis' North Carolina invasion force. One thousand American
frontiersmen under Colonel Campbell of Virginia gathered in the
backcountry to resist Ferguson's advance. Pursued by the Patriots,
Ferguson positioned his Tory force in defense of a rocky, treeless
ridge named King's Mountain. The Patriots charged the hillside
multiple times, demonstrating lethal marksmanship against the
surrounded Loyalists.

"Unwilling to surrender to a "band of banditti," Ferguson led a
suicidal charge down the mountain and was cut down in a hail of
bullets. After his death, some of his men tried to surrender, but they
were slaughtered in cold blood by the frontiersmen, who were bitter
over British excesses in the Carolinas. The Tories suffered 157
killed, 163 wounded, and 698 captured. Colonel Campbell's force
suffered just 28 killed and 60 wounded.>>
http://www.historychannel.com

The colonists, on hearing the Loyalists request surrender terms,
offered them "Tarleton's Quarter", a reference to the brutal
suppression by the hated Banastre Tarleton during his "Carolina
Campaign", especially at the "Battle of the Waxhaws" [May 29,1780],
where he refused "quarter" to surrendering troops of the Third
Virginia Continentals under Col. Abraham Buford.

The modern corollary, if we can even still imagine one in this "Nation
of Cowards", would be "Reno's Quarter", I suppose.

AND THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE ...

I didn't realize that the "carry" issue still had legs in New Jack
City. Given the advanced age of the "Sullivan Act" mentality, I took
it as a given that denizens of The Big Rotten Apple had long since
traded their birthright for the "avantages" of "living" in
Gothamorrah.

It's important to remember -- especially whenever we are told that
this politician or that is the "lesser of two evils", and therefore
somehow deserving of our support -- that gun controllers truly believe
that they are better than we, and that they are not subject to the
same restricitons they would impose on us. This amounts to a "royalty
syndrome"; it is evil of the highest order; and it should be stamped
out with whatever force is necessary.

As a former member of the law enforcement establishment, it pains me
-- only slightly -- to point out that nowhere is this attitude more
prevalent than among those allegedly hired "to protect and serve".

<<New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik - who, as a retired cop,
is exempt from most of the stringent licensing requirements ... told
Newsday that he carries a gun because "every retired cop has the right
... I've always had one.">>

Now everybody knows that the number of "legal" guns bears no
correlation to the "crime rate", but that doesn't stop the
prohibitionists from trying.

<<Federal officials generally estimate that there are about 2 million
illegal guns in New York City, but caution it is impossible to know
for sure. [Eli Silverman, a criminologist at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice] said that while the reduction of legal guns may be
linked to the decline in shooting crime since the 1980s and 1990s, he
doubts it was a major factor.

"The bad guys who want guns can get them and do get them," he
said.>>

That's quite an admission, though it means absolutely nothing. What
matters is that residents of New York live in a city where bad laws
are selectively enforced; where rights are subordinated to "security";
where the "elite" are openly contemptuous of the "masses"; and where
it's seriously considered better for a woman to be raped, strangled
with her own panty-hose, and left lying in an alley dead than for her
to carry a sub-nosed .357 in her purse. Thank goodness the rest of the
country isn't headed that way, hunh?

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